DOCTOR WHO - NEW SERIES NONSENSE
30 MAY 2004

Few TV series generate as much publicity in the British as "Doctor Who." Even before last week's announcement of the casting of Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, the Guardian and the Mirror had stories about the new series' storylines.

Monday's saw the Guardian's Media Monkey column correctly identify Billie Piper as BBC drama bosses' first choice to play "the sexy assistant," while also offering us this:

Hiring Russell T Davies to pen the BBC's new run of "Dr Who" was never going to produce anodyne scripts, and Monkey hears the "Queer as Folk" writer has turned the satire up to 11. In one episode, the members of the cabinet are displayed, Bodysnatchers style, as aliens hiding under human exteriors who only reveal their true selves when they lie.

Meanwhile, a bright spark over at the Mirror's HQ saw that the first episode is supposed to see the return of The Autons, sent a minion off to watch 'Spearhead From Space' and worked the waxworks coming to life idea into a story which sees the Doctor facing an enemy "even worse than the Daleks" in the shape of David Beckham. So far there's no news on whether the Mirror have got the photos to back this one up...